Slovakia Says No to Europe's Bailouts

The country has made painful reforms and is now asked to pay the bills of countries like Greece, which haven't.

By

Mats Persson

Updated Oct. 13, 2011 8:40 a.m. ET

Richard Sulik has emerged as Brussels's public enemy No. 1. As leader of Slovakia's Freedom and Solidarity party, or SaS, Mr. Sulik has consistently and vocally opposed euro-zone bailouts. SaS parliamentarians' refusal to back changes to the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) led to the collapse of the Slovak coalition government on Tuesday.

Mr. Sulik's opposition to paying for what he describes as other people's mistakes led Germany's Handelsblatt newspaper this week to label his anti-bailout movement a...